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Alan LeQuire presents gallery talk March 4 at Maryville College

Feb. 1, 2002

Noted Tennessee artist Alan LeQuire will present a gallery talk
March 4 at 6 p.m. in the Maryville College Fine Arts Center. LeQuire's
exhibit entitled "Monuments and Maquettes" will be on
display in the Center's art gallery from March 4 until March 29.
Gallery hours are 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

LeQuire, who served an apprenticeship with sculptor Milton Hebald
in Rome as well as earning a master's degree in fine arts from the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is best known for his
42-foot-tall recreation of Phidias' Athena Parthenos for the Nashville
Parthenon. The recreation is said to be the largest indoor sculpture
in the western world.

LeQuire is also highly regarded as a quick, accurate and sensitive
portraitist and figurative sculptor. He has completed numerous public
and private commissions in the region, and his works are in several
corporate and university collections.

"Monuments and Maquettes" will feature 10 small bronzes,
two colossal portrait heads from LeQuire's "Cultural Heroes"
series, two relief sculptures and one complete life-size standing
figure.

Although a resident of Nashville, Alan LeQuire has many Blount-County
roots. His father, Dr. Virgil S. LeQuire, graduated from Maryville
College in 1943 before going on to the Vanderbilt University School
of Medicine. Alan's grandfather, Dr. Granville Dexter LeQuire, grew
up in Cades Cove and attended Maryville College's preparatory department.
G.D. LeQuire practiced medicine in Blount County for nearly 50 years
and was the first chief of staff of Blount Memorial Hospital when
it opened in 1947.

A public reception will follow LeQuire's March 4 gallery talk in
Willard House on the College campus. Reservations for the reception
are required and may be made by calling 865/981-8198 by Feb. 25.